Historical fiction

Abbott, Edwin
        --Flatland

Ackroyd, Peter
        --The Beginning
        --The Clerkenwell Tales
        --Milton in America
        --The Plato Papers

Alexander, Bruce
        --Blind Justice
        --Smuggler's Moon
        --Watery Grave

Bosse, Malcolm
        --Captives of Time
        --The Examination
        --The Vast Memory of Love

Burgess, Anthony
        --Man of Nazareth
        --Napoleon Symphony

Carter, Jimmy
        --The Hornet's Nest

Collins, Max Allan
        --Blood and Thunder
        --The Road to Perdition (this title is also a movie)
        --The Titanic Murders

Cookson, Catherine
        --The Black Candle (this title is also a movie)
        --The Parson's Daughter

Courter, Gay
        --The Midwife
        --The Midwife's Advice

Coyle, Harold
        --Bright Star
        --The Ten Thousand

Delderfield, R.F.
        --The Avenue
        --God is an Englishman
        --To Serve Them All My Days (this title is also a movie)

DuMaurier, Daphne
        --Rebecca

Dunnett, Dorothy
        --Gemini
        --Pawn in Frankincense
        --Race of Scorpions
        --The Unicorn Hunt

Erskine, Barbara
        --House of Echoes
        --Lady of Hay

Fast, Howard
        --The Immigrants
        --Second Generation

Finney, Patricia
        --The Crow Goddess
        --The Firedrake's Eye
        --Gloriana's Torch
        --I, Jack
        --Unicorn's Blood

Gabaldon, Diana
        --The Fiery Cross
        --Outlander
        --Voyager

Garlock, Dorothy
        --Almost Eden
        --A Gentle Giving
        --Sins of Summer

Gear, Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael
        --People of the Mist
        --People of the Wolf
        --This Widowed Land

Grey, Zane
        --Raiders of Spanish Peaks
        --The Westerners
        --Wild Horse Mesa

Grunwald, Henry
        --One Man's America
        --A Saint, More or Less

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia
        --Emily
        --I, Victoria

Heyer, Georgette
        --Arabella
        --Beauvallet

Jakes, John
        --The Bastard
        --Charleston
        --The Funeral of Tanner Moody
        --The Seekers

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
         --Blood and Rubles
         --Down for the Count
         --Mildred Pierced

L'Amour, Louis
        --Hondo
        --The Quick and the Dead (this title is also a movie)
        --Taggart
        --West of Dodge

Lambdin, Dewey
        --Havoc's Sword
        --Jester's Fortune
        --The King's Coat

LaPierre, Alexandra
        --Artemisia
        --Fanny Stevenson

Michener, James
        --Hawaii
        --Mexico
        --Miracle in Seville
        --Tales of the South Pacific

Mitchell, Margaret
        --Gone With The Wind (this title is also a movie)
        --Lost Laysen

O'Dell, Scott
        --The Black Pearl
        --Island of the Blue Dolphins (this title is also a movie)
        --Zia

Perry, Anne
        --Death By Dickens
        --Death in the Devil's Acre
        --No Graves As Yet

Peters, Ellis
        --Brother Cadfael's Penance
        --The Horn of Roland
        --A Morbid Taste for Bones
        --The Raven in the Foregate

Potter, Patricia
        --Beloved Imposter
        --The Marshal and the Heiress
        --Starcatcher
        --Swamp Fire

Price, Eugenia
        --New Moon Rising
        --To See Your Face Again
        --The Waiting Time

Rinaldi, Ann
        --The Last Silk Dress
        --Mutiny's Daughter

Ripley, Alexandra
        --Charleston
        --A Love Divine
        --Scarlett

Robinson, Lynda S.
        --Drinker of Blood
        --Eater of Souls

Rutherfurd, Edward
        --The Princes of Ireland
        --Russka

Sabatini, Rafael
        --Captain Blood (this title is also a movie)
        --Scaramouche

Stegner, Wallace Earle
        --Angle of Repose
        --Genesis
        --The Spectator Bird

Stephenson, Neal
        --The Confusion
        --Cryptonomicon
        --Quicksilver

Sutcliffe, Rosemary
        --Blood and Sand 

Vidal, Gore
        --Burr
        --The Golden Age
        --Hollywood

Winterson, Jeanette
        --Art and Lies
        --The Passion

Wood, Barbara
        --The Dreaming
        --The Prophetess
        --Soul Flame



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Cooper, James Fenimore
        --The Deerslayer
        --The Last of the Mohicans (this title is also a movie)

Cornwell, Bernard
        --A Crowning Mercy
        --Sharpe's Eagle
        --Sharpe's Enemy
        --Sharpe's Siege (this title is also a movie)

Forester, C.S.
        --Death to the French
        --Captain Horatio Hornblower (this title is also a movie)
        --Sink the Bismarck (this title is also a movie)

Fraser, George MacDonald
        --Black Ajax
        --Royal Flash

Freemantle, Brian
        --Bomb Grade
        --Dead Men Living
        --Triple Cross

Kent, Alexander
        --Command a King's Ship
        --The Darkening Sea
        --Man of War

Kincaid, Jamaica
        --Annie John
        --At The Bottom of the River
        --Lucy
        --Mr. Potter

Lambdin, Dewey
        --Havoc's Sword
        --Jester's Fortune
        --The King's Coat

Larsson, Bjorne
        --The Celtic Ring
        --Long John Silver

Mallinson, Allan
        --A Close Run Thing
        --Honorable Company
        --A Regimental Affair

Nelson, James L.
        --All the Brave Fellows
        --By Force of Arms

O'Brian, Patrick
        --Blue at the Mizzen
        --H.M.S. Surprise
        --Master and Commander (this title is also a movie)

Penman, Sharon Kay
        --Cruel as the Grave
        --Dragon's Lair
        --Falls the Shadow

Perez-Reverte, Arturo
        --The Flanders Panel
        --The Nautical Chart
        --The Queen of the South

Pressfield, Steven
        --Gates of Fire
        --Last of the Amazons

Smith, Wilbur
        --Blue Horizon
        --The Burning Shore
        --River God



Historical sagas





 





 

Carr, Caleb
        --The Alienist
        --The Angel of Darkness

Clavell, James
        --Shogun (this title is also a movie)
        --Tai-Pan (this title is also a movie)

Doctorow, E.L.
        --Ragtime
        --Sweet Land Stories
        --World's Fair

Finney, Jack
        --Marion's Wall
        --Time and Again

Harris, Marilyn
        --American Eden
        --The Diviner
        --Eden Rising
        --The Women of Eden

Jakes, John
        --The Bastard
        --Charleston
        --The Funeral of Tanner Moody
        --The Seekers

McCullough, Colleen
        --Caesar
        --Fortune's Favorites
        --Morgan's Run
        --The Thorn Birds (this title is also a movie)

Michener, James
        --Hawaii
        --Miracle in Seville
        --The Source

Rutherfurd, Edward
        --The Princes of Ireland
        --Russka

Stephenson, Neal
        --The Confusion
        --Cryptonomicon
        --Quicksilver

Uris, Leon
        --Exodus
        --O'Hara's Choice
        --Redemption

Wouk, Herman
        --The Caine Mutiny (this title is also a movie)
        --War and Remembrance (this title is also a movie)
        --The Winds of War



Historical setting





 

Davis, Lindsay (Ancient Rome)
         -The Accusers
         -Shadows in Bronze
         -The Silver Pigs

McCullough, Colleen (Ancient Rome)
         -Caesar
         -Fortune's Favorites

Perry, Anne (Victorian)
         -Death By Dickens
         -Death in the Devil's Acre
         -No Graves As Yet

Peters, Ellis (Medieval)
         -Brother Cadfael's Penance
         -The Horn of Roland
         -A Morbid Taste for Bones
         -The Raven in the Foregate

Roberts, John Maddox (Ancient Rome)
         -Hannibal's Children

Saylor, Steven (Ancient Rome)
         -Arms of Nemesis
         -Have You Seen Dawn?
         -Rubicon

Tourney, Leonard (Elizabethan)
         -Frobisher's Savage
         -Knaves Templar
         -Old Saxon Blood

Van Gulik, Robert (Ancient China)
         -The Chinese Bell Murders
         -Murder in Canton
         -The Red Pavilion